Scalzi on Obama and the Democratic Party

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John Scalzi points out a few truths about yesterday's election:

1. It was Obama who won, not necessarily the Democrats.

2. The United States did not become a deep blue paradise overnight.

3. Obama will not give you everything you want, when you want it.

4. Your next president is going to disappoint you.

5. Last night’s election didn’t change the country; it offered a chance for the country to change.

Comments

[fruitylips.livejournal.com]

Anyone who thinks that being black was a handicap for Obama prolly thinks 'socialist' is a code word for it, too.

What Obama wasn't, however, was The Black Candidate. He was a candidate who was black. If he'd been white with that experience level and those associations, he'd never have gotten out of the IL legislature in the first place.

We'll see where this goes. I always thought he should've severed out his term and then gone and run for Gov of IL, but that clearly wasn't needed.